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Adelia

A name arriving, not one you've likely met: barely over a hundred Polish women carry it, yet 15 girls got it last year. From the Latin for "noble".

Adelia Pronunciation

Adelia is pronounced ah-DEL-yah (/aˈdɛlja/).

Related names
Ada
Alive in 2025
117
Newborns 2025
15
National rank
#3115

What Adelia means

Where Adelia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Adelia comes to Polish in a Latin form, and the word behind it means noble. In Polish that reads as szlachetna. The name belongs to a family of older forms, and its most familiar shortening is Ada.

Ada is the short of it. The full name keeps a formal ring, while the diminutive turns soft and quick. One serves documents, the other serves the day.

The sense of noble first pointed to rank. Over time it settled into character rather than birth. To carry Adelia is to hold a word that once described the high-born and later described anyone worth respect. The meaning did not fossilize. It moved from station to conduct, and szlachetna now praises how a person acts.

Look for it on a class register and you will find Adelia written in full, with Ada in brackets.

How many people are named Adelia

1 in 192682 women in Poland is named Adelia. 117 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3115 among female names.

People with the name Adelia 2019 → 2025
117 +88 since 2019
2020 31 +2
2021 36 +5
2022 46 +10
2023 77 +31
2024 97 +20
2025 117 +20

Adelia's popularity over time

15 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #583 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2019.

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15 newborns with the name Adelia in 2025
national rank #583 that year

Where parents choose Adelia

Adelia is most popular in Lower Silesian, 224% above the national average (8 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+201%) and Lesser Poland (+40%). It is least common in Masovian, 46% below average.

Chosen most
  • Lower Silesian
    +224%
    1 in 19,642 babies
  • Łódź
    +201%
    1 in 21,120 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    +40%
    1 in 45,383 babies
Chosen least
  • Masovian
    −46%
    1 in 118,088 babies

Adelia as a middle name

Adelia is a first name for 117 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 91/9 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2229th, between Ying (12) and Afroditi (11).

As a first name
117
As a middle name
11
first name 91% middle name 9%
Middle-name ranking women

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